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Quotes by Novelist
"If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."
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"If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared."
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"For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote."
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."
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"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."
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"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
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"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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"Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment."
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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
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"Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand."
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"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence."
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"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
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"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too."
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"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
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"The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance."I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening."Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed."Is that...is that blue birthday cake?"He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one.:Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a lot to talk about."
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"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
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"I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point."
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"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them."
Life,
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"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."
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"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
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"It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed."
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"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
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